The Oral History Review, Volume 16, Issue 1 (1988)

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Introduction: Elena Poniatowska, Task and Commitment
Eugenia Meyer
Pages: 1-5
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Earthquake to Carlos Monsivaís
Elena Poniatowska
Pages: 7-20
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Epilogue: One Year Later
Eva Salgado Andrade
Pages: 21-31
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Developing an Online Database and Printed Directory and Subject Guide to Oral History Collections
Cathryn A. Gallacher & Dale E. Treleven
Pages: 33-68
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Best Trash-Can Wiper in Town: The Life and Times of Valtéro Peppoloni, Worker
Alessandro Portelli
Pages: 69-90
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews

Book Review
Review Essay: Of Mice and Memory
Joshua Brown
Pages: 91-109
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Review Essay: Toward a New Local History: The Possibilities and Pitfalls of Personal Narrative
W. Edward Orser
Pages: 111-118
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Review Essay: Jazz and Oral History as Art Forms
Maurice A. Crane
Pages: 119-126
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Review Essay: Family History: Some Answers, Many Questions
Kerry William Bate
Pages: 127-130
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Karen Olson
Pages: 131-134
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Joshua B. Freeman
Pages: 134-136
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Rhoda G. Lewin Ph.D.
Pages: 137-140
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
John Christine Wolkerstorfer
Pages: 140-143
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Bernard Mergen
Pages: 144-146
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Book Reviews
Alphine W. Jefferson
Pages: 146-148
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Making Their Own Way: Southern Blacks' Migration to Pittsburgh, 1916-30. By Peter Gottlieb. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. 250 pp. Hardbound, $26.95.
Spencer R. Crew
Pages: 148-150
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Blood Justice: The Lynching of Mack Charles Parker.
By Howard Smead. New York: Oxford University Press, 1986. 240 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Spencie Love
Pages: 150-152
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Long Gone: The Mecklenburg Six and the Theme of Escape in Black Folklore.
By Daryl Cumber Dance. Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 1987. 185 pp. Hardbound, $18.95.
Barbara Allen
Pages: 152-154
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Homesteading the High Desert.
By Barbara Allen. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. 183 pp. Hardbound, $25.00.
Mary Kay Quinlan
Pages: 154-156
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Immigrant World of Ybor City: Italians and Their Latin Neighbors in Tampa, 1885-1985.
By Gary R. Mormino and George E. Pozzetta. Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1987. 323 pp. Hardbound, $24.95.
Michael A. Gordon
Pages: 156-158
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Life I've Been Living.
By Moses Cruikshank. Recorded and compiled by William Schneider. Fairbanks: University of Alaska Press, 1986. 132 pp. Softbound, $14.95.
Victoria Wyatt
Pages: 159-160
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Emily-George.
By Helen Papanikolas. Salt Lake City: University of Utah Press, 1987. 327 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Mary Jane Capozzoli
Pages: 160-162
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Harvest of Hate.
By Georgia Day Robertson. With an appended interview with the author by Arthur A. Hansen. Fullerton: California State University, Oral History Center, 1986. 586 pp. Hardbound, $23.60.
Winifred S. Wasden
Pages: 162-164
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Growing Up Italian: How Being Brought Up as an Italian-American Helped Shape the Characters, Lives, and Fortunes of Twenty-Four Celebrated Americans.
By Linda Brandi Cateura. New York: William Morrow and Company, Inc., 1987. 268 pp. Hardbound, $15.95.
Janet Snyder Matthews
Pages: 164-166
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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With Our Hands: The Story of Carpenters in Massachusetts.
By Mark Erlich with the research assistance of David Goldberg. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1986. 239 pp. Hardbound, $29.95.
Donna M. DeBlasio
Pages: 166-168
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Once a Cigar Maker: Men, Women, and Work Culture in American Cigar Factories, 1900-1919.
By Patricia A. Cooper. Urbana and Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. 350 pp. Hardbound, $29.95.
Debra Bernhardt Archivist
Pages: 168-170
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Class Conflict and Cultural Consensus: The Making of a Mass Consumer Society in Flint, Michigan.
By Ronald Edsforth. New Brunswick: Rutgers University Press, 1987. 294 pp. Hardbound, $40.00; Softbound, $12.00.
Gary Gerstle
Pages: 170-173
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Hard Times Cotton Mill Girls: Personal Histories of Womanhood and Poverty in the South.
By Victoria Byerly. Ithaca: ILR Press (New York State School of Industrial and Labor Relations, Cornell University), 1986. 223 pp. Hardbound, $26.00; Softbound, $9.95.
Annie Archbold
Pages: 173-175
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Breadlines Knee-Deep in Wheat: Food Assistance in the Great Depression.
By Janet Poppendieck. New Brunswick, N.J.: Rutgers University Press, 1986. 356 pp. Hardbound, $30.00.
Thomas E. Blantz C.S.C
Pages: 175-177
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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With the Boys: Little League Baseball and Preadolescent Culture.
By Gary Alan Fine. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1987. 289 pp. Hardbound, $37.50; Softbound, $12.95.
Jay Mechling
Pages: 177-179
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Ageless Self: Sources of Meaning in Late Life.
By Sharon R. Kaufman. Madison: The University of Wisconsin Press, 1986. 208 pp. Hardbound, $22.50.
Cullom Davis
Pages: 179-180
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Over the Beach.
By Zalin Grant. New York: WW. Norton & Company, 1986. 311 pp. Hardbound, $18.95.
Gilbert Ware
Pages: 181-182
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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George C. Marshall: Statesman, 1945-1959.
By Forrest C. Pogue. New York: Viking, 1987. 603 pp. Hardbound, $29.95.
Ronald E. Marcello (Director)
Pages: 182-183
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Hawk's Nest Incident: America's Worst Industrial Disaster.
By Martin Cherniack. New Haven: Yale University Press, 1986. 194 pp. Hardbound, $19.95.
Lonna M. Malmsheimer
Pages: 183-185
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Slow Burn: A Photodocument of Centralia, Pennsylvania.
Photographs and text by Renée Jacobs. Introduction by Margaret O. Kirk. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 1986. 152 pp. Softbound, $19.95.
Margaret Robertson
Pages: 185-187
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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The Making of the Atomic Bomb.
By Richard Rhodes. New York: Simon and Schuster, 1986. 886 pp. Hardbound, $22.95.
Sally Smith Hughes
Pages: 187-189
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Highroad to the Stake: A Tale of Witchcraft.
By Michael E. Kunze. Translated by William E. Yuill. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 1987. 424 pp. Hardbound, $24.95.
Bruce M. Stave
Pages: 189-191
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Fieldwork.
By Bruce Jackson. Chicago: University of Illinois Press, 1987. 311 pp. Hardbound, $37.95; Softbound, $13.95.
John B. Wolford
Pages: 191-193
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Media and Public History

Article
Crew and Sims, Field to Factory: Afro-American Migration, 1915-1940 (Traveling Exhibition)
Jo Blatti
Pages: 194-198
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Hunt and Wagner, The Stone Carvers (Film)
Elly Shodell
Pages: 198-200
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Croce, Clouded Land (Videotape)
Fred Nicklason
Pages: 200-202
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Bernhardt, New Yorkers at Work: Histories of Life, Labor, and Industry (Audio Cassette)
Andor Skotnes
Pages: 203-205
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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Bibliography

Oral History Dissertations and Masters Theses 1987 Update
R.Wayne Anderson
Pages: 207-209
Published online: 12 Nov 2019
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